Although curative treatment of fibroids relies on surgical therapies, medical treatments are considered the first-line treatment to reduce the symptoms, avoid or delay surgery. Medical therapy may also play a role as a temporizing measure for symptomatic women approaching menopause who wish to avoid surgical intervention...

Laparoscopic Myomectomy is a procedure in which fibroids are removed from the uterus through small incisions in the abdomen while retaining the uterus. Even large and multiple fibroids can be removed with laparoscopic myomectomy. This has the advantages of faster recovery from surgery, very little post-operative pain, next-to-no ...

Hysteroscopic fibroid removal is a technique that can be performed for fibroids which are within or bulging into the uterine cavity (submucosal fibroid). Only women with submucosal fibroids are eligible for this type of myomectomy. Fibroids located within the uterine wall cannot be removed with this technique...

Ultra-minilaparotomy myomectomy with laparoscopic assistance is very a safe and effective minimally invasive alternative to conventional open myomectomy or laparotomy in the treatment of very large myomas.This method of myomectromy is opted in cases of multiple and very large fibroid more than 20 cm...

Vaginal myomectomy allows surgical removal of uterine myomas via vaginal incision through which the myomas are removed and uterine suturing is performed.However, this surgical procedure was popular 1990s and 2000s when laparoscopic, robotic surgeries was not very advanced and popular. vaginal myomectomy was considered...

Uterine artery embolization (UAE) is a minimally invasive treatment for uterine fibroids, noncancerous growths in the uterus. In uterine artery embolization (uterine fibroid embolization) a doctor uses a slender, flexible tube (catheter) to inject small particles (embolic agents) into the uterine arteries, which supply blood to the fibroids...

Hysterectomy is a common gynecological procedure which involves removal of uterus. It does not necessarily mean removal of the ovaries. As the main functions of the uterus are reproduction and menstruation, a hysterectomy would therefore mean you no longer can bear children nor have menstruation...